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Kathy Bates recommended Collected Poems in Books (curated)

 
Collected Poems
Collected Poems
6.0 (1 Ratings)
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"I love sonnets, with their iambic pentameter. This collection has most of her best-known works, but my favorite “I Shall Go Back Again to the Bleak Shore,” is in her Selected Poems edition. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923, only the third woman to do so. All her life she was an activist for women’s rights."

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Books Editor (673 KP) shared own list

Oct 4, 2017 (Updated Oct 4, 2017)
The finalists for the 2017 National Book Awards have arrived.

The National Book Awards serve roughly the same function in the book world that the Oscars do in the movie world. Pulitzer-winner Jennifer Egan’s Manhattan Beach was widely reviewed and much discussed, but although it was on the longlist for fiction, it didn’t advance to the final round.

Find out more here: http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2017.html#.WdUIZWhSzIU

Below are the nominees for this year’s National Book Award, in four categories — Fiction, Nonfiction, Young People’s Literature and Poetry:


Afterland: Poems

Afterland: Poems

Mai Der Vang

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Afterland is a powerful, essential collection of poetry that recounts with devastating detail the...


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Don’t Call Us Dead: Poems

Don’t Call Us Dead: Poems

Danez Smith

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Award-winning poet Danez Smith is a groundbreaking force, celebrated for deft lyrics, urgent...


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Square Inch Hours

Square Inch Hours

Sherod Santos

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A vividly rendered collection tracing the aftermath of a breakdown and the struggle to reconnect...


Poetry
In the Language of My Captor

In the Language of My Captor

Shane McCrae

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Acclaimed poet Shane McCrae's latest collection is a book about freedom told through stories of...

Whereas: Poems

Whereas: Poems

Layli Long Soldier

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WHEREAS confronts the coercive language of the United States government in its responses, treaties,...


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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou | 1984 | Biography
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"It was hard to choose which Maya Angelou work I wanted to include in this list, but I ultimately decided I wanted the one that her most definitive. This is the book that made her a voice to be heard. I was also tempted to include her book of poetry, Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie, for which she was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize."

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